Wrapping for meats



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEAN ANTOINE MATHIEU, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

WRAPPING FOR MEATS, CLOTHES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,166, dated M'arch 8, 1887.

Application filed June 23, 1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, J EAN ANTOINE MATI-IIEU, of Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Vrappings for Meats, Clothes, 850., of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention consists in a wrapping or cover made of two sheetsof paper or other suitable material, (cloth, &c.,) having between them a film of disinfecting or antiseptic material.

I take a sheet of cloth or paper and coat one side thereof with a thin film of coal-tar, wood-tar, or other known disinfectant or anti septic, and then fasten another sheet of cloth or paper on the coated side of the first.

I am aware that cloth and paper has been saturated or coated with coal-tar or other disinfecting material; but such cloth or paper is dirty and greasy, and is unfit for use on any articles which must be kept clean. Cloth or paper so prepared could be advantageously used to wrap up articles of food to protect the same from attack by insects, or to protect clothing from moths; but as heretofore made it is unfit for such use. By preparing it in the manner above described Iobtain an article which is free from the objectionable qualities enumerated, but which retains all the beneficial qualities.

I am aware that a water-proof article has been made composed of two sheets of paper Serial No. 99,044. (No specimens.)

with rubber or a composition of rubber and paraffine between the sheets; but such an article is not my invention.

I am also aware that a wooden box or crate having double sides, top, and bottom has been provided with an inner absorbent lining and with a layer of tar-paper or other antiseptic material placed between the double sides, top, and bottom of the box. A11 insect-excluding device or wrapper has been made by placing camphor, tar, tobacco, or other oderiferous material between layers of waddin g or batting and inclosing the whole by an external covering of perforated boards, veneer, or paper, which will permit the odor of the inclosed material to be diffused, and yet prevent such material from escaping or getting into contact with contiguous articles. These, however, I do not claim.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a wrapping made of twoshects of paper, cloth,or othersuitable material inclosing a film of disinfecting -or antiseptic substance, substantially as described.

' JEAN ANTOINE MATHIEU.

Vitnesses:

M. W. EDGAR, HY. ANISAUREL. 

